Slow startup

Could somebody let me know the minimum system specs for the latest RC1? I installed it on a laptop, whilst not the most stellar of machines, where it took 29 secs for the main window to appear. Machine is defagged, running clean and lean. OpenOffice Writer 3.1 is ready to use in 20 secs.

Celeron 2.6GB, Win XP, 496MB of ram just over half that used for cache, the rest free.

WOW :D:D! 7-8 secs until the screen telling me how many days left of trial to run, under which the PA program was seen! How do I get that 7-8 secs startup with PA being registered? 29 to 8 secs startup is not to be sneezed at.

Looks like setting “Startup location” to a fixed folder (my Documents folder for me) solved the issue (was set on “Last open Archive” before).
Double clicking on whatever Archive now makes PA instantly open it like it should. Setting the option back to Last open Archive, PA starts to hang again when opening Archives double clicking in Explorer.

you have latest version right? Or older one? Check in Help> About, what version you have.

Can’t get what you’re meaning with “startup folder”, I’m sorry. I’m getting this with every archive, independently of the folder it’s stored in and of the number of files which are in that folder. Just having one folder with just 1 archive I get the hang when double clicking on it to open it with PA…

so when you open an archive it takes how long?

and if archive is in startup location (thats what i meant, location where PA Starts), same?

What Antivirus are you using? It seems to be scanning the file before letting PA use it?

When the problem is there, PA hangs 5-6secs before opening Archives. When it isn’t there, PA opens Archives almost instantly (depending on how big they are).
The hang is there if I start PA directly too…that means, not double clicking on an Archive but just starting the program. And just having one startup folder which doesn’t include more than 4 small zip Archives (max. 1.4mb). Like I said, forcing PA to a fixed startup folder looks to solve the problem, no idea on what it’s trying to do with the other option set.
My AV program is Avast…don’t think this could be it, as I never had this problem till maybe a pair of months ago (maybe even less)…if that would be the problem, then it would be there having one fixed startup folder, or?

can you please disable Avast temporary and try again… PA scans files when it starts, AV could be blocking access until it scans them.

Tried this…I get the hang if I set PA to startup on that folder and if I double click on Archives stored in that Folder (I put 2 very small Archives into it).
What I noticed is that I seem to get the very same hang while browsing to that Folder while setting it in PA options, at the exact moment when I click on the “Computer” icon (to make my drives show up). That doesn’t occur with any other application I have on my PC.
The funny thing is that if I move my Archives to the default folder “My Documents”, I don’t get the hang (keeping PA set to a fixed startup folder).

hm, something like that happened to me - i had AVG installed on our test computer Vista 64 bit (disabled), I uninstalled it so i can install Avast and after i restarted everything worked fine, even with avast installed and working.

hm, something like that happened to me - i had AVG installed on our test computer Vista 64 bit (disabled), I uninstalled it so i can install Avast and after i restarted everything worked fine, even with avast installed and working.

Disabling video hardware acceleration might give a clue as to whether it’s the video driver or not. In “Display Properties”, click on the “Advanced” button then the “Troubleshoot” tab of the Video Adapter properties page that shows up.
If the problem goes away after ratcheting down the Hardware acceleration and/or turning off write combining then the problem is almost certainly he video drivers.

@spwolf:
glad it works now, but the problem with cab is due to Windows version itself. It seems that Window’s cab dll is registered in the system and takes over.
We will have to investigate better if we can force usage of version of cab.dll that works.
Ya I can record a video to show you what I mean unless you know what I mean? On windows 8.1 If you can fix this this be huge big thank you
Here the driver set if you wish test your self on win 8.1 http://www.hardwareheaven.com/downloads/pax/PAX%20MASTER%20PCIe%20Titanium%20Driver%20Suite%202013%20V1.10%20Default%20Tweak%20Edition.7z
You have extract the cab support then recompress then click next on setup then when you do you see that error on it :).

I noticed a slight change in speed. It opens just a bit faster. It closed much faster than before. With previous betas I could see the ribbbon collapsing item by item in a fast series of flickers. Thats been resolved.

Tried this with Eset Antivirus version 6.0.314.0
Virus definitions: 8164
Worked fine, starts as usual.
I noticed that the startup time was very slow when Eset was doing it’s Quick Scan.
Is it possible that a quick scan or any scan was being performed at the time of your attempted start of PowerArchiver?
Go ahead and send over your reg settings (zipped) to support and I can take a look while I still have Eset installed.
And try to reproduce with your exact settings.
Thanks!